Astrologian Ravana Extreme Solo heal and Solo tank DRK

Not really impressed by the solo tanking, as he was dodging the additional strikes from Tapasy and splitting the damage of the Blinding Blade with the group. Outside of that, there's no damage being dealt to the tank that might kill him. They usually share that damage of the Bliding Blade with the OT.

However, I'm truly impressed with the solo healing part. Grats on that! Got handicapped by people getting vulnerability up during the orbs and still kept it up. Nicely done there!

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Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace

Not really impressed by the solo tanking, as he was dodging the additional strikes from Tapasy and splitting the damage of the Blinding Blade with the group. Outside of that, there's no damage being dealt to the tank that might kill him. They usually share that damage of the Bliding Blade with the OT.

However, I'm truly impressed with the solo healing part. Grats on that! Got handicapped by people getting vulnerability up during the orbs and still kept it up. Nicely done there!

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i'll give you my like for giggles for DRK part. :D

That music tho... mmmmmeeaty!

Great job! I love AST and it's nice to know endgame won't be as hard as people say

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Originally Posted by Lorielle

> Actually more impressed by the Solo DRK. The parrying must be real on that side of the world.

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So much this, i mean kupos to you OP for the solo heal but it's even better hearing about a DRK that could solo this, very nice!.

Astrologians remind me of Scholars back in 2.0/2.1. They were capable of solo healing all fights including Titan Ex, but only the competent healers could pull it off. It required those well placed WD and succor spam. I was one of the few who conquered those solo heals while the fights were new.

Most others were on WHM bandwagon. Because I remember when 2.0 first launched, people had this same misconception about Scholar that they were weaker than WHM. But later on, they were proved to be just as good and many switched over, which caused over-abundance of SCHs.

History is repeating with AST. I knew they were capable of endgame, but people whine because it's not as OP as WHM. I love the challenge in healing. Now I wish I took AST to 60 first. The only disappointing part about AST is that majority of the class is just re-skinned WHM spells/traits with card gimmick thrown in. Come on SE, did you run out of ideas?

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Originally Posted by Ferocious

History is repeating with AST. I knew they were capable of endgame, but people whine because it's not as OP as WHM.

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While I can agree very much so. I know they're capable of doing End Game. It's the same thing with Machinist and Dark Knight. They're well capable of doing End Game. It's just a matter of the abilities bringing something to the table or making things much more efficient. The issue is with AST is the latter. DRK is the former(actually both in my opinion). MCH I cannot say personally, perhaps the latter.

Machinist are not even weak. I did not realize but my brother is around 1k dps so they are far far fom weak.

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Originally Posted by Ferocious

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And how many patches that SCH has gone through? You hasn't even played AST to 60 yet to realize its problems for yourself, but at least try to read the AST complaint threads & see what most say. They want better card system, better CD & skill effects, better MP management, NOT higher healing potency.

Also, these solo-heal videos while being a well done job, personally I think that what tests a good healer isn't a good group that can avoid every potential damages, but a group of average randoms that take quite a big hit, with mistakes here & there, but still able to go on with good healing.

I'm not saying AST isn't capable of doing current contents, but keep in mind that those are just EX primals, like the ones in the past, not that hard but requires good gears & a bit of practices. The real end-game content is something similar to coil, and right now there's just no reason for people to accept AST into their statics, due to them being underwhelming when compare to the other healers.

Primals EX aren't end game content. It's not difficult at all.

You can see issue from the new class only during raid where you need a good synergy with all the party.

"History is repeating with AST. I knew they were capable of endgame, but people whine because it's not as OP as WHM."

Personnally, I don't really see something usefull on raid with him. His buffs aren't really worth it or you need to be lucky during an entire fight. AST can solo heal the actual content of course, since it's not difficult at all if the party know their jobs.

But AST issues are real. I mean, he should have really great buff for the party but it's not the case. I mean, sorry for the comparison but, Selene gives a buff for all party member during 30 seconds, all the 30 seconds with 100% chance.

AST is not supposed to do it better? Or is he supposed to be always lucky? For me AST should buff the party better than other healer jobs. The heal potency doesn't matter, I don't wanna see a whitemage V2.